After hearing about this book online for months, it was finally my turn for the audiobook at the library, and I was excited to dive in! The length was a bit daunting, but I’ve read my fair share of dense books, so I knew it was doable.

Overall, I did really enjoy this book, and I’m quite excited to continue on with the series. While this book isn’t a new standout favorite, I did like my time spent listening to it. It was extremely dense at points, something I usually really enjoy, but it made some scenes feel unnecessarily slow. The POV switches also worsened this at points, because it felt like they were kept fairly split, even when some POVs were much more exciting than others during certain points of the book. While the excitement was actually balanced well between the narrators, there were also plenty of moments where a specific narrator didn’t have too much going on, and their chapters started to feel repetitive and stagnant until it was their turn to get exciting again.

When it comes to the writing style and description, I’d say I generally liked it! While it’s not something I particularly noticed, and there weren’t specific lines that stuck out to me, it was descriptive in a perfect way for audiobooks. It evoked scenery well, and I could visualize things quite clearly, consistently. I also thought the fight scenes (and there were many) were quite well written. It’s easy to lose a reader in these scenes if not done well, but I felt like I was able to follow them quite closely, and it made them much tenser for me.

Overall, I really enjoyed this book, and I’m extremely intrigued to see where this all ends up going. It did feel like a lot of this book was setting up pieces that will be connected later, so I feel like I could love the sequels if they do a good job of putting all these pieces together. There’s nothing more satisfying than seeing everything click into place, especially after such a long build-up!